The Design & Partnerships Lead will be responsible for setting the vision and overseeing the implementation of Institute partnership programming, summer school student curriculum, and our content facilitator leadership development. Institute is an eight-week program designed to further the development of pre-service teachers and the summer learning for students. We approach this with a keen focus on integration (prioritizing content-specific training, classroom culture, and teaching as social justice), exposure to models, rehearsal and reflection as the path to internalization and development, and building a hunger in our teachers to drive their own growth. This is a tall order in such a short time period, and it requires strategic alignment of our Institute vision and the vision of Districts and our Institute partners.
The Design & Partnership Lead is responsible for stewarding the ongoing work of our partners so they are also receiving benefit from Institute in alignment with their mission and goals. The goal of our partnership work is to improve the learning experiences and outcomes for all students through collaboration, organizational learning, and open dialogue about possibilities for collective work in the future. Teach For America Bay Area Summer Institute will enable our partner organizations to expand their reach and impact on students as they bring their strengths to enhance our current pre-service training model.
As the Pre-Service Design & Partnerships Lead you will join a team to plan and execute our regional Bay Area summer institute. Your work will overlap in many areas such as managing the design and implementation of work plans, training and curriculum to support the growth of staff, corps members and students in the summer program. Your role will be to set a strategy that operationalizes our vision (for students, corps members, and staff) by managing tools and people that will build a culture of achievement focused on progress towards rigorous corps member development and student outcomes.
- Design a compelling vision and strategy to reach desired student achievement goals over the summer as part of our training program for corps members. Recruit, hire, train and manage a team of curriculum writers to produce summer school student lessons aligned to the vision and strategy.
- Provide feedback and accountability on the design and implementation of institute curriculum, systems, structures and programming that lead towards institute outcomes for corps members and students, including summer staff management and support plans.
- Structure work plans to handoff to staff and managing towards results through other people, including part-time institute staff (e.g. curriculum distribution).
- Design individual learning experiences for Institute and prepare materials (session plans, resources, materials, etc.) so that others can execute learning experiences.
- Sequence, organize and align learning experiences to meet the larger vision and outcomes for Institute (e.g. customize site specific calendars, organize instructional materials for easy access for staff and corps members, etc.)
- Develop and facilitate training experiences to prepare facilitators to execute adult learning experiences.
- Manage part-time staff members in the planning and execution of Institute.
- Cultivate strategic partnerships with school district personnel and school leadership in order to develop a summer school program for students and training program for corps members.
- Build networks and partner with people in the district to ensure district summer school goals/priorities are included in Teach For America Institute goals (academic goals, enrollment goals, teacher/faculty advisor development goals) and to ensure Teach For America can access data from the district to report on end of summer outcomes.
- Create and manage the execution of a placement plan aligned to the impact strategy, fostering a strong match between corps member.
- 6-8 years of work experience;
- Strong instructional background, preferably a former teacher coach or school leader;
- 2 years of experience supporting the implementation of curriculum and assessment with adults (as a manager, coach) required; including delivering training to adult learners;
- 2 or more years of management experience highly preferred.
Work Demands
- Teach For America generally assumes a minimum 50 hour work week for exempt staff members. Work hours are flexible based on the needs of the team and the position.
- Some weekend or evening work hours required.
- Ability to travel and work on-site at a university for eight weeks (including evenings and weekends) throughout the summer
Skills
- Deep internalization and demonstrated commitment to culturally relevant pedagogy
- Exceptional ability to collaborate with a team of instructional leaders to take strategic action towards ambitious goals
- Strong to Exceptional ability to build relationships across lines of difference; facilitate honest and productive conflict among diverse groups; create structures, policies, and processes that enable this effort and value the diversity of ideas and perspectives
- Ability to review, analyze, and adapt curriculum against a centralized vision
- Ability to manage others to outcomes and coach implementation of a curriculum, including strong capacity and skill with providing feedback
- Exceptional ability to build and execute multiple, distinct concurrent projects
- Ability to analyze and synthesize data from a range of sources to make high-impact, strategic decisions